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Tag Archives: Niall Ferguson
It’s complicated: understanding the relationship between the West and Asia
A new book explores what the East learned from both the brutality and the economic success of the West
REVIEW: Civilization: The West and the Rest
Book by Niall Ferguson
The rise and/or fall of radical Islam
WELLS: So which is it?
Niall Ferguson, slow learner
Tina Brown’s redesigned Newsweek is a mixed bag, but more promising on the whole than the glum tract that had been appearing under that title. One of her coups is the addition of historian Niall Ferguson as a columnist. Ferguson writes bestselling books and is a hot ticket on the speaker circuit, but I’m starting to worry he’s not quite cut out for shorter formats.
Thinking our way out of the recession
Digging holes and filling them back in won’t work. Growth requires investment in ideas.